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Re: slink_cd about ready to go



Adam Di Carlo writes:
>>>>>> "Steve" == Steve McIntyre <stevem@chiark.greenend.org.uk> writes:
>Steve>   Is there any way of getting silo to work on platforms other
>Steve> than sparc?  Otherwise the images will always have to be made
>Steve> on sparcs.
>
>Um, silo is a boot manager, and it's sparc specific, I think.

I know, but it's also needed to munge some of the slink sparc ISO images
to make them bootable.

>I hope for potato we are able to move toward a more cross-platform
>boot manager (grub?).  Documenting all these boot managers (alpha
>alone has two different ones) is a pain in the ass.

I wouldn't hold your breath...

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